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- Mayank Dwivedi, the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Banda-Chitrakoot, is joining the Samajwadi Party.
- Dwivedi will take party membership at the Samajwadi Party office in Lucknow in the presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
- Dwivedi is a two-time district panchayat member and the son of former BSP legislator Purushottam Narain Dwivedi, who won the Naraini assembly seat in 2007.
- The move could give the Samajwadi Party a prominent Brahmin face in the Bundelkhand region ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
- The shift matters because the BSP could lose a recent candidate while the Samajwadi Party gains a new figure in local politics.
What to watch next
- How much electoral impact the switch has in Banda and Chitrakoot ahead of the assembly elections.
- Whether the BSP faces further setbacks in Banda-Chitrakoot after Dwivedi's departure.
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